La Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias es responsable de la selección de los Premios Nobel de Química entre los candidatos recomendados por el Comité Nobel de Química. El Comité Nobel es el órgano de trabajo que examina las candidaturas y selecciona a los candidatos finales.
Los estatutos de la Fundación Nobel restringen la divulgación de información, ya sea pública o privada, acerca de las nominaciones durante 50 años. La restricción se refiere a los nominados y los proponentes, así como las investigaciones y dictámenes relacionados con la concesión de un premio. Entre 1901 y 1965 has sido propuestas para el Premio Nobel de Química las siguientes personas.
- Emil Abderhalden
- John Abel
- Philip Abelson
- Roger Adams
- Kurt Alder
- Angelo Angeli
- Fritz Arndt
- Svante Arrhenius
- Yasuhiko Asahina
- Ossian Aschan
- Francis Aston
- Carl Auer von Welsbach
- Oswald Theodore Avery
- Herbert Baker
- Philippe Barbier
- George Barger
- Frederick Bawden
- George Wells Beadle
- Martinus Beijerinck
- Kurt Bennewitz
- Andrew Benson
- Friedrich Bergius
- Max Bergmann
- Marcellin Berthelot
- Gabriel Bertrand
- Knut Beskow
- Johannes Bijvoet
- Arthur Binz
- Kristian Birkeland
- Niels Bjerrum
- Marietta Blau
- Max Bodenstein
- Niels Bohr
- William Bone
- Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Carl Bosch
- Emile Bourquelot
- William Henry Bragg
- Edouard Branly
- Georg Bredig
- Julius Bredt
- Percy Bridgman
- Johannes Brønsted
- Eduard Buchner
- Wilhelm Gerhard Burgers
- Adolf Butenandt
- Gladwyn Buttle
- Jacob Böeseken
- Melvin Calvin
- Stanislao Cannizzaro
- Heinrich Caro
- Nikodem Caro
- Torbjörn Caspersson
- Georges Léon Chaudron
- Giacomo Ciamician
- Frank Clarke
- Klaus Clusius
- Ernst Cohen
- Salomon Cohen
- Edwin Cohn
- Raphael Consden
- Edward Joseph Conway
- James Wilfred Cook
- Robert Corey
- Charles Coryell
- Dirk Coster
- Charles Coulson
- Lyman Craig
- William Crookes
- Burris Bell Cunningham
- Marie Curie
- George Curme
- Theodor Curtius
- Charles Galton Darwin
- Hilaire de Chardonnet
- George de Hevesy
- Gustaf de Laval
- André Debierne
- Petrus Debye
- Henri Devaux
- James Dewar
- Gerhard Dickel
- Otto Diels
- Edward Dodds
- William Doering
- Frederick Donnan
- Vincent du Vigneaud
- Charles Dufraisse
- George Dyson
- Joseph Eder
- Felix Ehrlich
- Paul Ehrlich
- Conrad Elvehjem
- Gustav Embden
- Friedrich Emich
- Carl Engler
- Arnold Eucken
- Samuel Eyde
- Henry Eyring
- Kasimir Fajans
- Enrico Fermi
- Louis Fieser
- Colin Fink
- Emil Fischer
- Franz Fischer
- Hans Fischer
- Otto Fischer
- Paul Flory
- Fritz Foerster
- Karl Folkers
- Ernest Fourneau
- Adolph Frank
- Edward Franklin
- Karl Johann Freudenberg
- Herbert Freundlich
- Otto Robert Frisch
- Alexander Naumovich Frumkin
- Casimir Funk
- Armand Gautier
- S. Geigy
- William Giauque
- Wolcott Gibbs
- Piero Ginori-Conti
- Francesco Giordani
- Domingo Giribaldo
- Victor Goldschmidt
- Moses Gomberg
- Arthur Gordon
- Victor Grignard
- Philippe-Auguste Guye
- Fritz Haber
- Otto Hahn
- Albin Haller
- John Hamaker
- Hartog Hamburger
- Olaf Hammarsten
- Louis Plack Hammett
- Arthur Hantzsch
- Arthur Harden
- Charles Harington
- William Harkins
- Carl Harries
- Paul Harteck
- Odd Hassel
- Sachachiro Hata
- Walter Norman Haworth
- Johan Arvid Hedvall
- Michael Heidelberger
- Ian Morris Heilbron
- George Heise
- Walter Heinrich Heitler
- Victor Henri
- Eugen Herzfeld
- Jacob Heslinga
- Alfred Hess
- Jaroslav Heyrovský
- Walter Hieber
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- Edmund Hirst
- Fritz Hofmann
- Arnold Holleman
- Bror Holmberg
- Frederick Hopkins
- Friedrich Hund
- Erich Hückel
- Erik Hägglund
- Otto Hönigschmid
- Christopher Kelk Ingold
- Vladimir Ipatieff
- James Irvine
- Pierre Jacquet
- Paul Job
- Frédéric Joliot
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Sophus Jörgensen
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Bogdan Kamienski
- Paul Karrer
- David Keilin
- Edward Kendall
- Ernest Lawrence Kennaway
- Joseph W. Kennedy
- Morris Kharasch
- Paul Kirk
- Fredrik Kjellin
- Peter Klason
- Albert Kluyver
- Rudolf Knietsch
- Izaak Kolthoff
- Gustaf Komppa
- Albrecht Kossel
- Walther Kossel
- Hans Adolf Krebs
- Richard Kuhn
- Werner Kuhn
- Moses Kunitz
- William Küster
- Fritz Kögl
- Hans Landolt
- Irving Langmuir
- Wendell Latimer
- Henry Le Châtelier
- Paul Lebeau
- Phoebus Levene
- Gilbert Lewis
- Choh Hao Li
- Willard Frank Libby
- Carl Liebermann
- Samuel Lind
- Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang
- Axel Lindh
- Karl Paul Link
- Fritz Lipmann
- Fritz London
- Ernest Rutherford
- Georg Lunge
- Feodor Lynen
- Paul Läuger
- Louis Maillard
- Leon Marchlewski
- Herman Mark
- Archer John Porter Martin
- Pierre Martin
- Joseph Mattauch
- Edwin McMillan
- Hans Lebrecht Meerwein
- Lise Meitner
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Henri Meulen
- Karl Miescher
- Alfred Mirsky
- San-ichiro Mizushima
- Henri Moissan
- Edward Morley
- Harmon Morse
- Henry Moseley
- Charles Moureu
- Robert Sanderson Mulliken
- Erich Müller
- Jens Möller
- Walther Nernst
- Carl Neuberg
- Paul Niggli
- Ida Noddack
- Walter Noddack
- Emilio Noelting
- John Northrop
- Arthur Noyes
- Severo Ochoa
- Giuseppe Oddo
- Karol Olszewski
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Friedrich Adolf Paneth
- Paul Pascal
- Emanuele Paterno
- Linus Pauling
- Marguerite Perey
- William Henry Perkin Jr.
- Isadore Perlman
- Jean Perrin
- Max Ferdinand Perutz
- Kurt Peters
- Rudolph Peters
- Amé Pictet
- Maurice Piettre
- Norman Pirie
- Michael Polanyi
- William Pope
- Albert Portevin
- Frederick Power
- Fritz Pregl
- Vladimir Prelog
- Paul Rabe
- Arthur Ramén
- William Ramsay
- Albert Recoura
- Tadeus Reichstein
- Walter Reppe
- Theodore Richards
- Friedrich Richter
- Eric Keightley Rideal
- David Rittenberg
- Robert Robinson
- Jean Roche
- William Rose
- Otto Ruff
- Leopold Ruzicka
- Curt Räth
- Paul Sabatier
- Frederick Sanger
- Wilhelm Schlenk
- Hermann Irving Schlesinger
- Carl Schmidt
- Ernst Schmidt
- Rudolf Schoenheimer
- Werner Schulemann
- Otto Schönherr
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
- Jean Senderens
- Glenn Sheline
- Henry Siedentopf
- Lars Gunnar Sillén
- Francis Simon
- Zdenko Skraup
- John Clarks Slater
- Frederick Soddy
- Walthère Spring
- Ernst Späth
- Wendell Stanley
- Hermann Staudinger
- Harry Steenbock
- Alfred Stock
- Arthur Stoll
- James Sumner
- Umetaro Suzuki
- Theodor Svedberg
- Frédéric Swarts
- Wojciech Swiętosławski
- Richard L. Synge
- Leo Szilard
- Sören Sörensen
- Bruno Tacke
- Gustav Tammann
- Edward Lawrie Tatum
- Hugh Taylor
- Hugo Theorell
- Marc Tiffeneau
- Arne Tiselius
- Alexander Robertus Todd
- Jacques Tréfouël
- Thérèse Tréfouël
- Alexander Tschirch
- Mikhail Tsvet
- Georges Urbain
- Harold Clayton Urey
- Johannes van Laar
- Donald van Slyke
- Jacobus van 't Hoff
- Artturi Virtanen
- Karl von Auwers
- Adolf von Baeyer
- Hans von Euler-Chelpin
- Edmund von Lippmann
- Emil Votocek
- Arthur Wahl
- Selman Waksman
- Paul Walden
- Otto Wallach
- Otto Heinrich Warburg
- Edward Washburn
- Fritz Weigert
- Chester Werkman
- Alfred Werner
- Louis Werner
- Arne Westgren
- Heinrich Wieland
- Robley Cook Williams
- Richard Willstätter
- Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr.
- Adolf Windaus
- Sergei Winogradsky
- Johannes Wislicenus
- Harland Wood
- Robert Burns Woodward
- Dorothy Wrinch
- René Wurmser
- Frits Zernike
- Theodor Zincke
- Richard Zsigmondy
- Louis Néel
- Lars Onsager
- Alexander Braunstein
- Claude Hudson
- William Hume-Rothery
- Georg-Maria Schwab
- Ralph Walter Wyckoff
- Emilio Segrè
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
- Maurice Stacey
- Georges Lemaître
- Martin Deutsch
- Ilya Prigogine
- Ch Prévost
- H. Lundegård
- Karl Ziegler
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Fritz Feigl
- Giulio Natta
- George Porter
- Gunter Scheibe
- Georg Wittig
- Félix Trombe
- Max Volmer
- Derek Harold Richard Barton
- Martin David Kamen
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Erwin Chargaff
- Egon Wiberg
- Iwan Nikolov Stranski
- Alexander Arbuzov
- Boris Arbuzov
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
- Ernest Gale
- Joan Folkes
- Friedrich Emil Brauns
- Paul Charpentier
- Maurice-Marie Janot
- Max Mousseron
- Alexandre Vladimiravitche Palladine
- Alexander Ivanovich Oparin
- Tadeuz Urbanski
- Alexander P. Vinogradov
- G. Stadnikov
- Carl Wagner
- Colin Munro MacLeod
- Maclyn McCarty
- Bernard Horecker
- A. Guinier
- Evgeny Zavoisky
- Jean Brachet
- Luis Federico Leloir
- Gerold Karl Schwarzenbach
- Yoshiyuki Toyama
- Walter Schottky
- Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
- Arthur Kornberg
- William Pfann
- Francis Owen Rice
- Frederick Rossini
- M. J. Chedin
- John Kendrew
- David Green
- Roger J. Williams
- Clemens Schöpf
- Howard Cary
- Arnold Orville Beckman
- Josef Engl
- Joseph Massolle
- Hans Vogt
- John Aston
- James D. Watson
- Francis Crick
- Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
- Alfred Hershey
- Martha Chase
- Alfred Gierer
- Gerhard Schramm
- Jannik Bjerrum
- Britton Chance
- Harry George Drickamer
- Leslie Orgel
- Pierre Van Rysselberghe
- Daniel Arnon
- Konrad Bloch
- Gerhard Herzberg
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
- Efraim Racker
- James Baddiley
- Neil Bartlett
- Herbert Brown
- Carl Djerassi
- Alfred Champagnat
- Manfred Eigen
- Ludwig August Wilhelm Geilmann
- Dionyz Ilkovic
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Noel Slater
- Saul Winstein
- Gunnar Blix
- Ernst Klenk
- John Monteath Robertson
- Alberte Pullman
- Bernard Pullman
- Stanley Bruckenstein
- Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov
- Ernst Otto Fischer
- Peter Pauson
- Karl-Wolfgang Mundry
- Jacques Monod
- Charles Wagner
- Efraim Katchalski-Katzir
- B. Matthias
- Fr. Sorm
- E. Terroine
- Rudolf Criegee
- K. Yamafuji
- P. Zamecnik
- H. Claassen
- J. Malm
- H. Selig
- Arthur Holmes
- Öjvind Winge
- G. Arnon
- Paul Doughty Bartlett
- John Warcup Cornforth, Jr
- O. Davtjan
- Ulick Richardson Evans
- S. Mason
- Otto Kratky
- Hermann Mark
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg
- Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
- Alan Walsh
- G. Popjak
- J. Jacob
- R. Hoppe
- L. Mortenson
- R. Valentine
- J. Carnahan
- Albert Eschenmoser
- Alfred Rieche